Rehabilitative use of music after stroke

Music is a stimulating, versatile, and motivating tool for neurological rehabilitation. After stroke, music can be used in many ways to rehabilitate motor, verbal, and cognitive deficits and support emotional well-being. Teppo Särkämö, psychologist and neuroscientist, has led pioneering clinical studies on music-based rehabilitation in neurological populations. He will show how different music-based interventions (music listening, singing, instrument playing) can aid the recovery of cognitive, motor, and communicative functions, enhance mood, and induce neuroplasticity changes in the recovering brain after stroke and brain injury.